The New York Times Sues
Ashcroft in CIA Leak Probe

By

Chad Bray Dow Jones Newswires

Updated Sept. 30, 2004 12:09 a.m. ET

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NEW YORK -- The New York Times Co. sued U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft on Tuesday to prevent the Justice Department from reviewing phone records of its reporters as part of a probe of a leak of the identity of an undercover Central Intelligence Agency operative.

In its lawsuit filed in federal court in Manhattan, the publisher of the New York Times and the Boston Globe...